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Wednesday, 29 February 2012

New clues have emerged in what could be described as the world's oldest
murder case: that of Oetzi the "Iceman", whose 5,300-year-old body was
discovered frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991. See the BBC news article.

The research team gathered information about Ötzi’s ancestry. His Y
chromosome possesses mutations most commonly found among men from
Sardinia and Corsica, and his nuclear genome puts his closest
present-day relatives in the same area. Perhaps Ötzi’s kind once lived
across Europe, before dying out or interbreeding with other groups
everywhere except on those islands.

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